Merida actually sat in her bed stumped, her mother brushing her hair. Elinor was curious to know how everything had went.

"So what did you think of Young MacGuffin?" asked Elinor who kept tugging. To be honest she didn't know how her daughters outing was because they never talked about it, at all. Merida was quiet, she wasn't sure what to think. MacGuffin was alright, if she had thought about it, husband material. Oh she didn't want to think about this. She wanted to think about a free life, what was her mother doing playing tricks on her head like this.

"What do I have to do tomorrow with young Macintosh?" she asked rather grumpily. His real name was Torrance, she didn't have a clue of what he may have wanted to do with her. For all she knew he wanted her to watch him do something that made himself look good.

"He wants to have a picnic lunch over on the archery fields, he wants you to show him how you did it," said Elinor. Maybe Torrance was the man for her since she didn't say anything about young MacGuffin. The archery fields she was going to be able to shoot tomorrow.

Both of them went to bed feeling good about the next day. Maybe something good might come out of it. Maybe Merida would finally find love, thought Elinor. She wanted to see her daughter happy and there wasn't much time left in choosing a suitor. Maybe her and Fergus should have picked a man while she was young.

Merida wanted to get her date with young Macintosh over with. Maybe she would be at peace with herself. She did feel funny about her outing with Ian, but she just couldn't place it. Her dress for the outing was a new one a deep royal blue dress. Oi another date was not was she was up for.

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"What do you think so far?" asked Torrance. Both of them had ridden there horses to the archery fields and he had taken food out of a basket. There was apples, pies, cakes, and a little big of lamb chop taken out of the basket. He had his arms showing off every tatoo he had on his body. She was slightly okay with the tatoos he had. She had eagerly taken an apple and bit into it.

Hmm sweet juicy goodness. Torrance only looked at her and smiled at her liking what he had picked for lunch. Both of them ate in silence, only for him to crack a joke here and there. This was so awkward.

"So what made you pick our outing to be here?" she asked wiping her hands on her dress. Drat she was supposed to be polite and wipe her hands on her napkin and not her dress. She looked at him waiting for an answer, and boastfully he spoke up.

"Well I know you like archery, more then I do. So I thought to bring you out here with some of your favorite foods. I've also been practicing, do you want to see?" he asked eagerly. He really wanted to show off some of his new skills. He had learned a new move with his sword, though it didn't defeat young MacGuffin, it still pleased him. He had actually made the middle of the target. He even threw the lumber logs a bit faurther then usual.

Merida frowned into her lambchop sandwich. Didn't he pick anything out for himself? He hardly even touched his food, which was her favorite meal. He also picked to meet each other at the archery fields where she loved to go. Then he said that he wanted to show off some new moves. That was when she noticed the lumber logs, an archery set pulled up. Oh boy he was going to try to show off.

"Didn't you pick anything for yourself?" she had asked him. Instead he was to busy looking at himself in the near by pond. "Is there anything you like?"

He looked at her like she had two heads or something. He was trying to win her heart, so he was going to do stuff she liked. He looked over at the activities he had planned, and then the food.

"You know we should just get married," he said ignoring her question. "We both know Abernathy isn't exactly the brightest star in the sky. And MacGuffin, what could you see in him?"

Merida only looked at him only wanting them to answer the question. Abernathy was an alright guy, besides he had somebody else to love. As for young MacGuffin, she wasn't sure what to think of him. He just didn't talk much and got his languages confused. She just stared back at him.

"Well I like haggis and swimming," he admitted but neither of that was on the list. That was when Merida's eyes grew big, he was trying to win her over by the stuff she liked. He didn't even try to find a common ground only to do stuff she liked. Maybe there ideas and thoughts were the same but nothing else really was there. Maybe young MacGuffin was doing exactly the same.

She sat steemed when she took off and out back to her home leaving a very confused Torrance. She didn't want this. She didn't want boys to chase after her.

Yes, so Merida got mad at him for only thinking of her and not trying to find a common interest. What's the word to describe that? I tried to make him a bit more grown up but also a child at the same time. Oh and I had reasoning!

Merida doesn't want any special treatment because she's going to be queen. She was afraid that he was going to try to win her over and that if they never had anything in common it probably wouldn't grow into love.